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@dguido or incredibly difficult to pull off
@_ta0 History has proven that to be a false statement.
@dguido i respect you immensely but please point to an example of an actual practical attack against tor that deanonymized anyone
@dguido the latter, yeah, that was serious, but the tor project addressed it quickly and efficiently
@_ta0 Tor has a history of practical anonymity failures, from malicious exit nodes to architectural vulns and more http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf …
@_ta0 Tor has uses but it is over-prescribed as a solution and carry unknown risk for users not intimately familiar with it.
@dguido VPNs aren't reliable because, well, they're generally companies
@dguido based on snowden NSA can identify people if they put significant resources to it, but NSA's significant resources are significant
@dguido yes. there have been a few attacks that require less than 50% of the network to perform but most attacks are either theoretical
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